Government Gazette British Columbia (September 07, 1872)

PUBLISHED B¥ AUTHORITY.

Vol. XI. 1 VICTORIA, SEPTEMBER 7tti, .1872. [No. 36.

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Government ETotices.

Provincial Secretary’s Department.

Circuit Courts 2

Altering boimd.iries of Saunich School District 1

Creating a School District, Gabriola 1

Lands and Works Department.

Keserving a tract of land at Na.is River 3

Notice of reserve of lauds to the south and west of James Day 3

Reserving a tract of land at Howe Sound 3

Reserving a tract of land at Baynes Sound 3

Respecting the issue of Crown Grants 3

Reserving tracts of Land on right bank of Columbia River ... 2

Tenders for Graving Dock 3

School Reserve, Coniiaken District 2

Reserving Lands in Chilcotiu Country 2

Beoistr.ar General.

Respecting the issue of a Crown Grant to Henry Wain 2

Respecting the registration of Births, De.aths & Marriages... 2

Respecting the issue of duplicate Certificates of Title 4

Proclamation.

further proroguing Legislative Assembly 1

Miscellaneous Wotices.

Respecting Stock of the Canada Pacific Railway Company 4

Application for Crown Grants under “Mineral Ordinance,

1869.” 3

Extract from Standing Orders respecting Private Bills 4

Hydrographic notice respecting a Rock at Thormauby Island 4

In re Joseph F. Hixson, a Bankrupt 4

Administrator’s Notice 2

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLU3IBIA.

Jro ([tarnations.

[L. S.] JOSEPH W. TRUTCII.

CANADA.

PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA.

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender
of the Faith, &c., &c., &c.

To Our faithful the Members elected to serve in
the Legislative Assembly ofOnr Province of British
Columbia, and summoned and called to a meeting of
the Legislature or Parliament, of Our said Province,
at Our City of Victoria, on Monday, tlie Twelfth
day of August next, to have been commenced and
held, and every of you, — Greeting.

A PROCLAMATION.

J. P. McCreigiit, \ TTTHERE.'VS tlio meeting of tiie
Attorney-General, f \\ Legislature or Parliament
of the Province of British Columbia, stands called for
Monday, the Twelfth day of August next, at which
time, at Our City of Victoria, you were held and
constrained to appear:

NOW KNOW YE that for divers causes and con-
siderations, and taking into consideration Ihc case
and convenience of Our loving sulijects, Wc have
thought fit, by and with the advice of Our Executive
Council of the Province of Britisli Columbia, to
relive you, and each of you, of your attendance at
the time aforesaid ; hereby convoking, and by these

presents enjoining you, and each of you, that on
FRIDAY, the ELEVENTH day of the month of
OCTOBER next, you meet Us in Our Legislature, or
Parliament, of the said Province, at Our City of
Victoria, and therein to do as may seem necessary.
Herein fail not.

In Testimony Whereof, we have caused these
Our Letters to be made Patent, and the
Great Seal of Our said Province to be here-
unto affixed : Witness, the Honorable Joseph
William Trutcd, Lieutenant-Governor of
Our said Province of British Columbia, in
Our City of Victoria, in Our said Province,
this Twentj’-third day of July, in the year of
Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
and seventy-two, and in the thirty -sixth year
of Our Reign,

By Command.

RICHARD WOODS,

Registrar Supreme Court.

(Botiijiimncnt gdiccs.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
30i/t August., 1872.

WHEREAS by a Notice from the Colonial Secre-
tary’s Office, dated the 14th Julj', 1869, the
Districts of North and South Saanich were created a
School District, under the title of “The Saanich
School District ;

And whereas it is advisable to alter the boundaries
of the said District;

And whereas provision is made in Section 6 of
“The Public School Act, 1872,’’ for the Lieutenant-
Governor in Council to alter the boundaries of exist-
ing School Districts ;

Notice is hereby given, that the boundaries of the
said Saanich School District are hereby altered as
follows : —

The Saanich School District shall comprise all that
District known on the Official Map as South Saanich,
and such portion of the District known as North
Saanich as lies between a straight line drawn from
Saanich Arm to Bazan Bay, along the centre of the
road crossing the District at Brown’s Farm, and the
boundary of the District of South Saanich, as laid
doM’u on the Official Map of the said District.

By Command.

A. EOCKE ROBERTSON,

Provincial Secretary,

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
29;/t Augttst, 1872.

WHEREAS the Lieutenant-Governor in Council
is empowered under “The Public School Act,
1872,’’ to create School Districts in addition to those
already existing, and to define the boundaries thereof;
it is hereby notified that His Excellency has been
pleased to create an additional School District on the
Islands known, severally, as Gabriola and Mudge,
which have been incorporated, under the name of the
“Gabriola School District.’’

By Command.

A. ROCKE ROBERTSON,
Provincial Secretary.

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THE BEITISH COLUMBIA GAZETTE. [September 7tb, 1872.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
2G</j July^ 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that under
and to carry out the provisions of “The Regis-
tration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Act, 1872,’’
the Lieutenant Governor in Council has divided the
Province into the following Districts, and appointed
District Registrars, as set opposite each such District
respectively, except in the Districts comprising the
Electoral Districts of Victoria City and District,
Esquimau and Cowichan Districts, which being
hereby constituted one District for the purposes of
the said Act, the Registrar General is, cx officio,
District Registrar under the said Act; and, further,
that the boundaries of such Districts are, in everj^
instance, the precise boundaries of the respective
Electoral Districts or Divisions as described in a
Proclamation under the hand and seal of His Ex-
cellency the Lieutenant-Governor, dated 28th Sep-
tember, 1871: —

District No. 1, to consist of the Electoral Districts
ot Victoria City and District, and Esquimau and
Cowichan.

District No. 2, to consist of the Electoral Districts
of Nanaimo and Comox. — District Registrar, F. Tre-
vor, Esq.

District No. 3, to consist of the Electoral Districts
of New Westminster City and District. — District
Registrar, F. G. Claudet, Esq.

District No. 4, to consist of the Electoral District
of Yale. — District Registrar, W. C. Berkeley, Esq.

District No. 5, to consist of the Polling Division of
Clinton and Canoe Creek, in the Electoral District of
Lillooet. — District Registrar, C. E. Pope, Esq.

No. 6, to consist of Polling Division of Lillooet, in
Electoral District of Lillooet. — District Registrar,
B. Tynon, Esq.

District No. 7, to consist of Electoral District of
Cariboo (except the Polling Division of Omineca). —
District Registrar, H. M. Ball, Esq.

District No. 8, to consist of the Polling Division of
Omineca, in Electoral District of Cariboo. — District
Registrar, W. H. Fitzgerald, Esq.

District No. 9, to consist of Electoral District of
Kootenay. — District Registrar, A. Vowell, Esq.

By Command.

A. ROCKE ROBERTSON,

Provincial Secretary.

:n^otioe.

A COURT OF GENERAL ASSIZE and GAOL
DELIVERY and of NISI PRIUS will be held
at each of the under mentioned places as follows : —
New Westminster, Wednesday, 1st May,

Yale, Monday, 6th May,

Lytton, Thursday, 9th May,

Clinton, Tuesday, 14th May,

Quesnel, Saturday, 25th May,

Richfield, Friday, 5th June,

Richfield, Monday, 9th September,

Quesnel, Friday, 13th September,

Clinton, Monday, 23rd September,

Lytton, Friday, 27th September,

Yale, Tuesday, 1st October.

Fall Assizes at New Westminster, and Assizes (if
any) at Nanaimo and elsewhere, to be hereafter fixed
as business may render necessary.

Dated Victoria, 15th April, 1872.

By Command.

A. ROCKE ROBERTSON,

Provincial Secretary.

“Crown Grants Ordinance, 1870.”

OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that I shall, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the “Crown
Grants Ordinance, 1870,’’ and at the expiration of
Three months from the date hereof, recommend the
issue of a Crown Grant to HENRY WAIN, of Section
19 North, Range II. West, and ’Section 19 North,
Range III. West, District of North Saanich, unless
objection be made to me in writing in the meantime
against the issue thereof.

H. B. W. AIKMAN,

Land Registry Office, Registrar General.

8th June, 1872.

“The Registration of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages Act, 1872.”

NOTICE.

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that
from and after the 1st day of September
next, all Births, Deaths, and , Marriages, within the
Province of British Columbia, are to be registered,
under the provisions of “'i’he Registration of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages Act, 1872,” at the office of
the District Registrar of the District, wherein the
same shall respectively take place, and within the
times following, that is to say : —

Births — Within 60 days from the date thereof.
Deaths — Within 30 days after interment.

Marriages — Within 90 days from the date thereof.
Every Householder, Head of a Family, Clergyman,
Physician, or other person or persons, required by
the said Act to report Births, Eeaths, and Marriages,
who refuses, or wilfully neglects to do so, within the
times before named, will be liable to a penalty for
each and every offence of not less than Five Dollars,
or more than Twenty Dollars, to be recovered, with
costs, before any Justice of the Peace having juris-
diction (within the locality where any such offence
is committed against the said Act.

By Command.

H. B. W. AIKMAN,

Land Registry Office, Registrar General.

27th August, 1872.

NOTICE.

In the matter of the Estates and Effects of
GIACCOMO AMORETTI,

JOHN GUTHRIE,

C. H. BETTER,

Deceased, Intestates.

All persons who are indebted to any of the
above named Estates are requested to pay their
indebtedness forthwith ; and any persons who have
claims against either of the above mentioned Estates
are requested to forward them on or before the 1st of
November, next, to

CHAS. E. POOLEY,

Official Administrator.

Dated, 28th August, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Eeservation of Lands in Chilcotin Country.

The whole of the Land in the Valley of the Chil-
cotin River, extending back on either side to
the hill tops, is reserved from the opdlation of the
“Land Ordinance, 1870,” until further notice, and
pending the location and allotment to the Indians of
the Lands to be set apart for their use and enjoyment.
By Order in Council.

B. W. PE ARSE.

Surveyor General,

for Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.
Lands and Works Department,

Victoria, 30fA August, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

The Western halves of Sections 8 and 9, Range 1,
Comiaken District, North Cowichan, are hereby
reserved for School purposes.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.
Lands and Works Office,

Victoria, July 8th, 1872.

N OTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that a tract of

Land, containing 640 acres, situated on the
right bank of the Columbia River, at the “Big Eddy,”
East end of the Eagle Pass, is reserved until further
notice. The Storehouses of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Survey are in the centre of said Reserve.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lands & Works.

Lands &'Works Office,

Victoria, 27th February, 1872.

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September 7tii, 1872.] THE BlllTlSH

i^otice:.

Notice is IIEREHY given tlmt a tract of Land
containing about '1,000 acres, situated on the
North or right bank of Naas Uiver, at its junction
with Observatory Inlet, and extending from said
Observatory Inlet about six miles up the Naas River,
and about a mile back from the said North or right
bank of said River, is reserved until further notice.
By Command.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lands tj" Worlcs
Lands ^ Works Office,

Victoria, 51k June, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that Crown Grants

of all Surveyed Lands in the former Colony of
Vancouver Island and its Dependencies (excepting
only those in Victoria District) as well as on the
Mainland of British Columbia, the purchase money
for which has been fully paid, will on proper applica-
tion for the same, be at once issued.

Such Crown Grants will be made out invariably
in the names of the original purchasers from Govern-
ment, unless in such special cases as are provided for
under the “Crown Grants Ordinance, 1870.”

Applications must be made by letter, addressed to
the Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works and
Surveyor General, giving the Christian and Surnames,
in full, of the Persons to whom the Crown Grants are
to be made, and enclosing the receipts for the pur-
chase money of the Land referred to.

Should it be inconvenient for the Person in whose
name any such Crown Grant is made, to receive the
same at this Office, it will be handed to any Agent
duly authorized by some Instrument in writing to
give a receipt for the same.

By Command.

GEO. A. WALKEM.

Lands and Works Office,

Victoria, June 5th, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that all the land ai

Baynes Sound, Vancouver Island, lying between
the Reservations established by notices in the
Government Gazette, dated respectively March 20th
and May 1st, 1868, is reserved until further notice.
By Command.

GEO. A. WALKEM.

Lands & Works Office, Victoria,

June 5th, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that a Tract of Lan’

containing about Nine Thou.sand Six Hundred
(9,600) acres, situate at the Head of Howe Sound
and extending about Five Miles back in a Northerly
direction, with a width of about Three Miles, situated
equi-distantly on each side of the two branches of the
Squawmisht River, is Reserved until further notice

By Command.

GEO. A. WALKEM.

Lands and Works Department,

Victoria, B. C., 6th June' 1872.

COLUMBIA GAZETTE.

N O T I E .

Notice is hereby given, that a tract of

Land, containing O-IO acres, situated on the
right bank of the Columbia River, about live miles
South of the Blaeberry River, is reserved until fur-
ther notice. The Storehouses of the Canadian Pacific
Railway Survey are the centre of said Reserve.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lands & Works.
Lands & Works Office,

Victoria, 27th February, 1872.

BRITISH COLUMBIA.

ESQUIMALT GRAVIITG DOCK.

The government of British Columbia

are prepared to receive Tenders for the con-
struction of a Graving Dock, at the Naval Station,
Esquimau Harbour, under the guarantee provided in
the Twelfth Section of the Terms of Union of this
Province with the Dominion of Canada, which Sec-
tion is in the following words : —

“ The Dominion Government shall guarantee the
interest for ten years from the date of the completion
of the work, at the rate of five per cent, per annum,
on such sums, not exceeding £100,000 sterling, as
may be required for the construction of a first class
Graving Dock at Esquimau.”

The Dock to be of masonry, and of not less than
the following dimensions: —

Length on floor 370 feet.

Do. over all 400 feet.

Width between copings 90 feet.

Do. on floor 45 feet.

Do. of entrance 63 feet.

To afford a depth of water on the sill of not less than.
26J feet at high water springs, and to be substan-
tially constructed to the approval of Government,
upon a site to be provided by the person whose ten-
der may be accepted.

Further particulars as to site, borings, &c., may be
obtained from T. A. Bulkley, Esq., Chief Engineer
to Government, upon application in writing to the
Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works.

Tenders must specify the time within which the
Dock will be completed, and must be accompanied
by drawings and descriptions showing exact dimen-
sions, materials, and mode of construction of pro-
posed Dock.

Tenders are to be sealed, superscribed “Tender for
Esquimau Graving Dock,” addressed to the Chief
Commissioner of Lands and Works, Victoria, British
Columbia, and delivered at his Office before noon of
the 15th day of November, 1872.

Persons who may consider the above guarantee to
be insufficient, are at liberty to tender on the basis of
such supplemental guarantee by the Provincial Gov-
ernment, or upon such other financial inducements, as
they may suggest.

The Government do not bind themselves to accept
the lowest or any tender.

Each Tender must be accompanied by a Bond from
the Contractor, and two sufficient sureties, for the
payment of £10,000 to Her Majesty, Her heirs and
successors, conditioned upon the due fulfilment of
the Tender which it accompanies, provided it be
accepted within three months from the said 15th
November.

By Command.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lands and Works,

Lands and Works Office,

Victoria, April 2lth, 1872.

NOTICE.

For the better information of the public

generally. Notice is hereby given, that all of the
Crown Lands lying to the South and West of James’
Bay have heretofore been and continue still to be re-
served by the Government ol British Columbia, and
that the said Lands are therefore not open to Pre-
emption by any person.

GEO. A. WALKEM,

Chief Commissioner of Lauds <Sc Works.

Lands and Works Office,

Victoria, B. C., 9th February, 1871.

Pisi’i’IInncoufj

ISTOTIOE

I N compliance with “ The Mineral Ordinance,
L 1869,” Notice is hereby given that the under-
signed intend to apply for a Crown Grant of a tract
of Mineral Land, being a portion of the Mineral Laud
held by us under Mining License, dated 11th Novem-
ber, 1870.

Yale, B.C., GEO. DUNBAR,

July 10th, 1872. THOS. SCHOOLEY.

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THE BRITISH COLUMBIA GAZETTE. [September 7th, I872f.

“Land Registry Ordinance, 1870.”

Lots 122 and 123.

Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance
of the provisions of “The Land Registry Ordi-
nance, 1870,” I shall issue, in the name of JOSEPH
JOHNSON SOUTHGATE, a duplicate Certificate of
Title (in lieu of the original, which has been lost or
destroyed) to Subdivisions Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8,
of Victoria City Lots, Nos. 122 and 123, said Subdi-
visions being otherwise known ns that portion of said
Lots 122 and 123 lying between Victoria Harbour and
Pacific Street, unless cause be shewn to the contrary
within one month from the date hereof.

E. B. W. AIRMAN,

Registrar General.

Land Registry Office.,

Qth September, 1872.

“Land Registry Ordinance, 1870.”
Lots 150 and 151.

Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance

of the provisions of “The Land Registry Ordi-
nance, 1870,” I shall issue a duplicate Certificate of
Title (in lieu of the original, which has been lost or
destroyed) to Lots numbers 150 and 151, Victoria
City, in the name of SAMUEL MILETICH, unless
cause be shewn to the contrary within one month
from the date hereof.

H. B. W. AIRMAN,

Registrar General.

Land Registry Office,

Qth September, 1872.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

HYDROGRAPHIC NOTICE.

Strait op Georgia. Welcome Pass,
Thormanby Island.

AROCR, dry at low water, of some extent lies 2
cables Eastward of the N. E. part of Thormanby
Island, at the Eastern entrance to Welcome Pass,
contracting the width of the channel to little more
than 3 cables ; its position is N. 10° W., cables
from the small Island in the Bay on the East side,
and N. 76° E., 2 cables from the N. E. point of Thor-
manby Island, and S. 28° E. 4 cables from the West-
ern Island on the North shore at the Eastern entrance
to the Pass. Vessels navigating this channel should
be careful to preserve a mid-channel course ; 2 cables
S. E. of this rock a depth of 30 fathoms was obtained.

ED. SCOBELL CLAPP,
Navigating Lieutenant.

H. M. S. Scout,

Esquimau, 24th June, 1872.

R. P. CATOR,

Captain.

Bankruptcy Notice.

WHEREAS a Petition for adjudication of Bank-
ruptcy, bearing date the 10th day of June, 1872,
hath been duly filed against JOSEPH FOSTER HIX-
SON, of the One Hundred and Fifty Mile House,
Lillooet-Alexander Waggon Road, in the Province of
British Columbia, Trader, and he having been
declared a Bankrupt, is hereby required to surrender
himself to His Honor Chief Justice Begbie, sitting in
Bankruptcy, on the 2nd day of September, next, at
10 o’clock in the forenoon precisely, and on the 13th
day of September, following, at 11 o’clock in the
forenoon precisely, at Quesiielmouth, and make a full
discovery and disclosure of his Estate and Effects,
when and where the Creditors are to come to prove
their debts, and at the first sitting to choose Assignees,
and at the last sitting the said Bankrupt is required
to finish his examination.

All persons indebted to the said Bankrupt, or that
have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the
same but to Mr. Charles E. Pooley, the Official Assig-
nee whom the Court has appointed.

CHAS. E. POOLEY,

Victoria, Official Assignee.

13th August, 1872.

CANADA PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY.

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that the Stock
Books of the Canada Pacific Railway Company
will be opened on the first day of August next (1872)
in the Province of British Columbia, to wit : in the
City of Victoria, in the hands of WILLIAM C. WARD,
Esq.

Parties desirous of making application for Stock in
the said Company, will please address themselves in
the Province of British Columbia to the person herein
above named.

E LEF. DE BELLEFEUILLE,

Secretary.

Montreal, 24th June, 1872.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

YfiLE SILVER JimNG COMPANY.

IN compliance with “ The Mineral Ordinance, 1869,”
Notice is hereby given, that the Yale Silver
Mining Company intend to apply for a Crown Grant
of a tract of ilineral Land, being a portion of the
Mineral Land held by them under Mining Licence^
dated 4th July, 1872.

GEO. DIETZ,

Yale, B.C., Secretai-y.

July 20th, 1872.

NOTICE.

House op Assembly,

2nd August, 1872,

{Extract from R^iles relative to Private Bills.)

50. All applications for Private Bills, properly the
sjubject of legislation by the Legislative Assembly of
British Columbia, within the purview of “The British
North America Act, 1867,” whether for the erection
of a Bridge, the making of a Railroad, Turnpike Road,
or Telegraph Line ; the construction or improvement
of a Harbour, Canal, Lock, Dam, or Slide, or other
like work; the granting of a right of Ferry; the in-
corporation of any particular trade or calling, or of
any Joint Stock Company ; or otherwise for granting
to any individual or individuals any exclusive or
peculiar rights or privileges whatever, or for doing
any matter or thing which in its operation would
affect the rights or property of other parties, or relate
to any particular class of the community; or for
making any amendment of a like nature to any former
Act, — shall require a Notice, clearly and distinctly
specifying the nature and object of the application,
to be published as follows, viz. ; —

A notice inserted in the British Columbia Gazette,
and in one newspaper published in the District affect-
ed, or if there be no new'spaper published therein,
then in a newspaper in the next nearest District in
which a newspaper is published.

Such notice shall be continued in each case for a
period of at least six weeks, during the interval of
time between the close of the next preceding Session
and the consideration of the Petition.

51. Before any Petition praying for leave to bring

in a Private Bill for the erection of a Toll Bridge, is
presented to the House, the person or persons intend-
ing to petition for such Bill, shall, upon giving the
notice prescribed by the preceding Rule, also, at the
the same time, and in the same manner, give notice
of the rates which they intend to ask, the extent of
the privilege, the height of the arches, the interval
between the abutments or piers for the passage of
rafts and vessels, and mentioning also whether they
intend to erect a drawbridge or not, and the dimen-
sions of the same. ••

CHARLES GOOD,

Cleric of the Legislative Assembly.

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